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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

In the real world, you cool down hostility by talking it out. On the internet it’s the opposite, and that approach gives the village idiot a global megaphone to radicalize or enrage others with. I think mass adoption social media is new enough that we’re still figuring out how it should work.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Isn't it more in the real world people don't interact with close to the number of people they do on the internet, and they never encounter or avoid a lot of people which acts like a real world filter or blocklist?

Internet is like walking in a store and then being flooded with hearing the thoughts of everyone in the store like you're experiencing a telepathic attack.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

In the real world you don't get obvious bad faith actors in your face shouting nonsense very often, and when you do, you usually walk away from them too. It's not helpful to engage with people who are actively working against cooling down.